Salons

Salons Series

 

What is a Salon?

Dating back to the literary and philosophical movements of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, a salon is “a fashionable assemblage of notables (such as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) held by custom at the home of a prominent person.”At the Heller Center, junior faculty present their research to the campus and wider Colorado Springs community. The audience may choose – or not - to read a pre-posted selection of the professor’s writing before the event. After a brief lecture, the floor opens for questions and conversation – all with wine and cheese.

 

 

Heller Center Salon Series


 

 

Kristen Galvin

September 29 at 6pm 

Kristen Galvin  

Assistant Professor, Department of Visual and Preforming Arts/ Director of Art History

Hypernostalgia in Contemporary American Visual Culture 

After a summer of “Running Up that Hill” and the return of Maverick to the not-so- friendly skies and box office, today’s visual culture in the United States curiously looks, sounds, and feels increasingly like the 1980s. Join Dr. Kristen Galvin for a discussion regarding the pleasures and pitfalls of this escalation in media nostalgias, and the state of being stuck on, and in, the last decades of the 20th century.

Kristen Galvin received her doctorate in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine where she received both a Chancellor’s Fellowship and the University of California Humanities Network Graduate Fellowship. She also holds an MFA and MA from Purchase College, SUNY, and a BA from Brown University. Her current book project explores the visual cultural phenomenon of what she calls “hypernostalgia” in the 21stcentury, examining how it leverages the ongoing culture wars to rearticulate constructions of “Americanness.” She has published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, Leonardo Electronic AlmanacThe Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Art Journal Open, American Book Review and in multiple edited collections. She is currently an Assistant Professor and Director of the Art History Program in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Her research interest include examining post-1960s visual and material culture in the United States, her interdisciplinary research explores intersections across contemporary art, film and media, popular music, performance, gender and sexuality, memory, and subcultural studies. 

 


 

 

 

Abghari

Thursday, February 16, 2023 * 6pm  

Haleh Abghari  

Senior Instructor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts/ Director of Voice 

Voices without Borders

Haleh Abghari is a native of Iran and has performed internationally as a singer and actor. The New York Times hailed her work as "a virtuoso and winning performance," and The Washington Post the described her voice as “high, dry, sweet and piercingly pure soprano."

Her performances include appearances at the Montalvo Center for the Arts, Live at The Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Music on the Edge Series at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Joe’s Pub (NYC), the Monadnock Music Festival, the Staunton Music Festival, the IFCP Festival, and the CrossSound Festival (Alaska), as well as EtnaFest, Teatro Manzoni, and SoundRes in Italy. She has appeared as guest soloist and/or recorded with numerous ensembles including The New York New Music Ensemble, Cygnus Ensemble, Sequitur Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Bent Frequency, Empyrean Ensemble, Thamyris, and Fred Ho’s Afro Asian Music Ensemble.

In addition to working with numerous living composers and premiering new works, Abghari has created original music and performance pieces, and collaborated on many projects and installation-performance pieces with visual and performance artists. She received a Fulbright Grant to work on the music of Kurtág in Budapest. She previously worked as music programmer and host for WNYC and WQXR in New York City. In both her teaching and her creative pursuits, Abghari aims to promote social justice, active citizenship, civic dialogue, and finding new forms of political expression through the arts

 

 


 

 

Svetieva

Thursday, April 13, 2023 * 6pm

Elena Svetieva

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication / Director of Leadership Communication

Barriers to Honesty in Communication - What it Means for Leadership, Life, and Work

Prior to joining UCCS in 2018, Elena was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina and the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal. Elena holds a PhD in Communication from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Her research focuses on the emotional dimensions of communication, whether it be facial expressions of emotion in political leaders, or leader emotion in communicating feedback to subordinates. She is also interested in the intersection between emotion and deception and how emotion influences the way we lie and our decision to do so. Recently, she has been exploring the challenges and opportunities of honest communication, both in leadership and in life.

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Past Salon Series

Climate Consciousness: Empire, Energy, Progress
Climate Consciousness: Empire, Energy, Progress
Dylan M. Harris
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Geography & Environmental Studies
Spring 2022
Educational failure, Christianity, and the Project of Teaching Culture in the Age of TikTok
Educational failure, Christianity, and the Project of Teaching Culture in the Age of TikTok
George Bayuga
Instructor
Dept. of Anthropology
Spring 2022
Nocturnal Revelling: The HMS Dolphin, The Story of the Ship that Lost Its Integrity
Nocturnal Revelling: The HMS Dolphin, The Story of the Ship that Lost Its Integrity
Ilaheva Tua’one
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Women’s & Ethnic Studies
Fall 2021
Cab Calloway And The Jive Drug
Cab Calloway And The Jive Drug
Max Shulaman
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual and Performing Arts- Theater
Spring 2021

 

 
Exploring Setting and Narrative in Hemingway's "Wine of Wyoming"
Exploring Setting and Narrative in Hemingway's "Wine of Wyoming"
Susan Vandagriff
Kraemer Family Library
Spring 2021

 

 
Confucian Ritual and Moral Education
Confucian Ritual and Moral Education
Colin Lewis
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Spring 2021

 

 
Is Wonder A Liberal Virtue?
Is Wonder a Liberal Virtue?
Steven Pittz
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Winter 2021

 

 
Changing Times, Changing Families: Marital Status and Health in an Era of Rapid Family Changes
Changing Times, Changing Families: Marital Status and Health in an Era of Rapid Family Changes
Esther Lamidi
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Summer 2020

 

 
The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice Without Going to War
The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice Without Going to War
Jennifer Kling
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Fall 2019

 

 
War non War
War non War
Stephen Carter
Assistant Professor
English Department
Spring 2019

 

 
Nostalgic For The Unfamiliar: The Ethnic Return Migration of Korean Americans
Nostalgic For The Unfamiliar: The Ethnic Return Migration of Korean Americans
Stephen Suh
Assistant Professor
Sociology and Women & Ethnic Studies
Fall 2018

 

 
Decolonizing the Ludlow Massacre Site
Decolonizing the Ludlow Massacre Site
Karin Larkin
Assistant Professor and Curator
Department of Anthropology
Spring 2018

 

 
Our Secular Eighteenth Century
Our Secular Eighteenth Century
David Diamond
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Fall 2017